Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippine people. Thereafter an eight-year probationary period will follow during which the U. S. will retain control of the islands' International affairs, foreign loans and defense. A U. S. High Commissioner will replace the Governor General. Filipinos will be restricted to a U. S. immigration quota of 50 per year. Duty-free sugar imports to the U. S. will be limited to 850,000 tons per year, cocoanut oil to 200,000 tons, cordage fibre to 3,000,000 Ib. To give Filipinos a taste of the tariff, collection of an island export tax equal...
...with a knack of creating well-bred sensations. He turned French decorators loose in the Queen's Bedroom, gave them carte blanche to make it a quiet, tasteful office. Also last week he completed long-distance negotiations with the German Government which may profoundly change the tariff and quota systems not only of Europe but of the world...
Before the War the U. S. was entirely dependent on Chile for nitrates-basic ingredient of explosives and fertilizers. Last week France announced that U. S. producers of synthetic nitrates would receive a 10,000-ton order as their quota for the first quarter of 1933. With 50,000 tons already shipped in the first half of the fiscal year, U. S. producers (of whom the greatest by far is Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.) point with pride to the French orders as the largest ever exported by the U. S. to one country...
...owner of the vein is Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd. Six years ago Roan had not been formed. Two years ago it was not producing commercially. When last spring the coppermen of the world decided to curtail production to 20% of capacity, Roan Antelope meekly agreed to a quota of 23,000 tons. Last week when the coppermen were meeting in Manhattan to renew their pact, Roan Antelope's representatives arrived bristling with demands and challenges. African copper has long been considered a potential threat to the copper supremacy of the U. S. Roan Antelope's attitude last...
...Inter-House eating," as the term implies, was established solely to make it possible for a student living in a House to take a limited number of meals each week in a House other than his own and to have the meals so taken charged against the weekly quota for which he has signed up in his own House. The arrangement is one which applies exclusively to students living in the Houses...